Sandra Dallas

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Award-winning author SANDRA DALLAS was dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine. Sandra’s novels with their themes of loyalty, friendship, and human dignity have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and have been optioned for films.

A journalism graduate of the University of Denver, Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. A staff member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,) she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from penny-stock scandals to hard-rock mining, western energy development to contemporary polygamy. Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her novels.

While a reporter, she began writing the firs...more

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Books by Sandra Dallas

Average rating: 3.75 · 23,973 ratings · 5,132 reviews · 35 distinct works

	The Persian Pickle Club 3.70 avg rating — 5,862 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Prayers for Sale 3.75 avg rating — 5,211 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Tallgrass 3.77 avg rating — 3,269 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Diary of Mattie Spenser 3.97 avg rating — 2,538 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Alice's Tulips 3.70 avg rating — 1,334 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Whiter Than Snow 3.74 avg rating — 1,126 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Chili Queen 3.57 avg rating — 1,127 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Buster Midnight's Cafe 3.63 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions	My rating:
	New Mercies 3.62 avg rating — 817 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Bride's House 3.52 avg rating — 774 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:

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“You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.”
― Sandra Dallas

tags: storytellers , storytelling

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“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”
― Sandra Dallas

tags: crafts , quilting , quilts , sewing , women

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“When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

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